There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.
I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist.
In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man. . . in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.
Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.
I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.
I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?
I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.
I have no religion because I was born and raised Jewish. And on the first night of Hanukkah, my parents, when I was very young, gave me a top to play with. They called it a dreidel. I knew it was a top. And as I looked at that top, I said, 'You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.